Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-10-15
Big Bass Floats My Boat
Round 1956 of the first Big Bass Floats My Boat demo run left a 3x cell empty until a USD 30 fish paid USD 90 during free spins, and the log keeps that grid.
In numbers: measured RTP 95.5% against 96.07% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 11.2% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 140 rounds (143 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 39x the stake, mean 82.5x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.17x of their price on average, 77% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,990.8x; the longest dry run was 67 spins.
Big Bass Floats My Boat demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
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Test card
20,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.07% |
| RTP measured | 95.47% (approximate 95% CI 72.1–118.9) |
| Hit frequency | 11% · every 8.94 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 67 / 9.01 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 200.0x · run 2, round 9858 |
| Free spins, natural | 143 · 7.2 bHz · every 139.9 spins · mean bonus round payout 82.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,188 |
- 012026-09-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓85.29%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓105.65%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 1.17x · median 0.419× price (USD 83.80) · 77 of 100 below price · best 43.21x · worst 0.07x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 15.8 / 10–80 |
| Retriggered | 37% |
| Multiplier total (avg / max) | 3 / 26 |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 229.94 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Extensions mean ten-spin additions earned after each fourth fisherman in the Standard feature. Nineteen of run two's fifty purchases and 18 of run one's received at least one, ticket 3 of run two seven of them; 26 of run two's 75 natural features and 19 of run one's 68 were extended. Initial awards of fifteen or twenty spins are starting grants, not extensions. Super uses a different three-fisherman threshold and was not sampled.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 23,386.80116.93% · approximate 95% CI 32–201%
- Net
- +USD 3,386.80+16.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 23 / 10023%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 9 / 1009%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~140 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 140 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll the 2 runs in sequence needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 77 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 141 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 538 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
7 rules screens from the game
The money fish and the fishing equipment do different jobs on this five-reel, three-row board. Boats, rods, dragonflies, tackle boxes and card symbols form combinations across ten paylines anchored to reel one; boats begin paying with a pair. Money fish instead carry values from 0.2x to 50x the total stake, and an occasional base-game collection can apply individual multipliers reaching 50x.
Three scatters award ten free spins, four award fifteen and five award twenty; a two-scatter base screen can gain another scatter through a reel respin or an octopus transformation. Fishermen appear as wilds during the feature, replacing regular paying symbols but neither scatters nor money fish. Ante switches the ordinary ten-credit stake to fifteen credits and raises the natural-feature chance; the recorded series kept Ante off.
Each fisherman gathers the visible fish, using the multiplier already attached to each occupied position. Fish appearances raise those position multipliers even without a fisherman; new fish bring new money values on subsequent spins. Every fourth collected fisherman grants another ten spins in the standard feature, and random additions or reel changes can bring fish and fishermen together.
Two purchases are offered: Standard at 100x the stake and Super at 300x. Super reduces the extension threshold to three fishermen; only Standard purchases enter the fifty-ticket sample here. The build lists medium volatility, a 5,000x ceiling and ordinary stakes from USD 0.10 through USD 250. Theoretical RTP is 96.07% in normal play, 96.06% with Ante, 96.08% for Standard and 96.09% for Super; USD 375 appears in the rules as the maximum once Ante is included, while the normal-mode bet panel confirms USD 250.
Free spins
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Retrigger
Extra bet
Multiplier
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
10 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Eighty spins on one ticket
Ticket 3 of run two is the purchase that defines the series: 29 fisherman collections, seven ten-spin extensions, eighty spins and USD 8,641 back on USD 200, with USD 2,305 on spin 74 alone. The hundred Standard tickets have returned USD 23,386.80, 116.93% of cost, but 77 paid under their price, the median sits at USD 83.80 and without ticket 3 the other 99 returned 74.47%; 37 tickets gained at least one extension.
Two runs of 10,000 USD 2 rounds returned 85.29% and 105.65%, 95.47% pooled (approximate 95% CI 72.09%–118.85%, which only describes how well the mean is pinned down) against the 96.07% setting. Natural features came 68 and then 75 times, one per 140 rounds, paid 61.8% of pooled money at a 39-stake median, and 45 of the 143 were extended; round 6179 of run two, fifty spins and USD 3,981.60 (1,990.8x), is the largest round, ahead of run one's 368.5x.
Paying screens stayed rare in both runs, 11.35% and 11.02% of rounds, with 17,763 of 20,000 rounds blank and dry stretches of 67 and 61 rounds. Ordinary play peaked at USD 200 in run one and USD 400 in run two, round 9858, and each run's balance sank about 1,500 stakes under its start at the lowest point, 1,470.7 and 1,575.6.
- Eighty free spins on ticket 3 of run two returned USD 8,641, 43.2 times the price
- Seventeen fisherman collections in round 6179 of run two added up to USD 3,981.60
- Natural features came once per 133 rounds in run two, 26 of the 75 with an extension
- Purchases swung from 58.91% of cost in run one to 174.96% in run two
- The median Standard ticket paid USD 83.80 against a USD 200 price over 100 purchases
- Sixty-seven and 61 rounds were the longest dry stretches, in run one and run two
- Hits came on just 11.02% of run two's rounds, the lower rate of the two
- Forty-nine of run two's 75 natural features never got past ten spins
Run 01·2026-09-15·85.29%
Round 1956 began with three free spins that paid nothing. Two fish visits had nevertheless raised one position from 1x to 3x; when a fresh USD 30 fish appeared there on spin four, its contribution was USD 90. That first fisherman gathered USD 154 from fish whose unmultiplied values totalled USD 92. A second collection added USD 1.60, leaving the ten-spin feature at USD 155.60 without an extension.
Standard purchases recovered USD 5,890.60 from USD 10,000 spent, with a mean recovery of 0.58906x the ticket and a median of 0.401x, or USD 80.20. Forty-two of the fifty tickets failed to recover their USD 200 price, while the largest paid USD 588.40. That best purchase lasted forty spins, but its extended grid still returned only 2.942x the ticket price.
This unpaid preparation appeared throughout the ordinary sample: 647 natural-feature screens contained fish without a collector. Position growth did not itself credit the balance, and the fish showing on those screens were not stored for later payment. Actual natural-feature collection supplied USD 9,466.80; line awards added USD 160.80 to complete the USD 9,627.60 bonus-only total.
The grid remembered the 3x cell, not the earlier fish that built it. A later fish on that cell paid; the unpaid visits did not.
Run 02·2026-10-15·105.65%
Ticket 3 ran eighty free spins: 29 fisherman collections, seven extensions after every fourth fisherman, and USD 8,553.40 in fish money, with the biggest single spins on spin 74 (USD 2,305), spin 68 (USD 1,332) and spin 52 (USD 1,042.80). The ticket returned USD 8,641, 43.2 times its USD 200 price, and the batch of fifty closed at 174.96% of cost; the other 49 tickets returned 90.36% of their price, with a USD 89.70 median and 35 under USD 200. Nineteen tickets gained at least one extension and five opened with fifteen spins.
Round 6179's natural feature did the same on a smaller scale: fifty spins, 17 collections, four extensions and USD 3,981.60, 1,990.8 stakes, USD 1,805 of it on its final spin. Seventy-five features arrived in the 10,000 USD 2 rounds, one per 133, 26 of them extended, and their rounds paid USD 13,969.20, 66.1% of the run's money, at a 40.2-stake median. The run returned 105.65%, USD 21,129 on USD 20,000. Ordinary screens paid on 11.02% of rounds, the longest blank stretch ran 61 rounds from 3469 to 3529, and the best screen without a feature, round 9858, paid USD 400.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rig
This game has been through 2 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 20,000rounds, all runs
- 11%rounds that paid
- 1,991xbiggest round
- 1 / 140natural bonus rate
- 1.17xmean of 100 buys
- 67longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-15 measured return85.29%-10.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 66.9–103.7%
- rounds that paid
- 11%
- biggest round
- 369x · round 3,777
- longest dry streak
- 67
- natural bonuses
- 68 · one per 147 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.59x · median 0.401x · 84% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,059
- deepest drawdown
- 1,476x
02run Run 022026-10-15 lab note measured return105.65%+9.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 62.7–148.6%
- rounds that paid
- 11%
- biggest round
- 1,991x · round 6,179
- longest dry streak
- 61
- natural bonuses
- 75 · one per 133 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.75x · median 0.449x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,129
- deepest drawdown
- 1,576x
Run two returned 105.65% after run one's 85.29%, with 75 natural features against 68 and a 1,990.8x round where run one never passed 368.5x. Purchases went from 58.91% to 174.96% of cost on ticket 3's USD 8,641 over eighty spins, the largest ticket of the hundred by a factor of ten.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-15, 2026-10-15): 20,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 100 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.07%); every request and response logged.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the log
What did ticket 3 of run two actually do over eighty spins?
It collected 29 times, earning a ten-spin extension after every fourth fisherman, seven in all, and the fish money came to USD 8,553.40 of its USD 8,641: spin 74 paid USD 2,305, spin 68 USD 1,332, spin 52 USD 1,042.80 and spin 63 USD 850.40. The ticket cost USD 200.
Has Big Bass Floats My Boat reached its 96.07% RTP yet?
No. The pooled figure is 95.47% over 20,000 USD 2 rounds, from 85.29% in run one and 105.65% in run two, which paid USD 21,129 on USD 20,000, USD 3,981.60 of it in round 6179.
Did many run-two features grow past ten spins?
Yes, 26 of 75: twenty ran to twenty spins, four to thirty and one, round 6179, to fifty; one more started with fifteen spins from four scatters and reached 25. Run one extended 19 of 68.
Is the Standard ticket still a losing purchase after 100 tries?
Yes, for most tickets: 77 of the 100 came in under their USD 200 price, at a USD 83.80 median, even though the hundred together returned 116.93% of cost. Run one's batch came back at 58.91% and run two's at 174.96%, eight of run two's tickets doubling their price and one, ticket 3, paying 43.2 times it.
Did ordinary screens pay more in run two than in run one?
Yes, at the top: round 9858 of run two paid USD 400, 200 stakes, twice run one's best ordinary screen of USD 200; rounds 8627 and 7810 followed at USD 200 and USD 191.40. Paying screens were still rare, 11.02% of run two's rounds.
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- spins20,000
- bet2.00
- result-906x
- RTP measured95.5%
- bonuses143
- max win, no bonus200.0x
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